Crime Confidential
Morning reacp
By Bryan Fitzgerald on June 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Here are Wednesday morning's headlines:
My colleague Brendan J. Lyons has a look at the health care cost of victims of gun violence. From Brendan's story…"According to a new study by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the lifetime cost of being shot — per victim — is about $64,000. …It found that government programs, along with special funds culled from fees charged to hospitals and insurers, were needed to offset nearly $768 million of treatment for shooting victims during a five-year period ending in 2011."
Schenectady police officer Eric Peters showed poor judgment in his public behavior but doesn't deserve to be fired because there is not enough evidence to support department charges that he assaulted his fiancee on St. Patrick's Day 2011, a hearing officer found.
Jurors deciding the murder case of Jah-Lah Vanderhorst will return to court Wednesday morning after deliberating for roughly 35 minutes Tuesday without reaching a verdict.
A Ballston Spa elementary music teacher faces 5 to 20 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to accessing online images and videos of child pornography.
More than 300 bags of heroin, marijuana, prescription pills and a loaded rifle were found Tuesday during a raid at the home a convicted felon shared with his wife, a teenager and a young child, Troy police said.
An Albany man previously convicted of burglary and attempted burglary was sentenced Monday to 161/2 years to life in prison for his role in several burglaries last summer, including one where he robbed a man with a BB gun, the Albany County District Attorney's Office said.
Fort Edward police have sent the shotgun that killed a 13-year-old boy earlier this month for forensic testing, hoping the results will tell them who fired the fatal shot and help them determine whether anyone will face charges in the connection with the boy's death.
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